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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)Mad Max 2
In the annals of action movies few can compare with 'Mad Max 2', a full-throttle epic of speed and carnage that rockets you into a dreamlike landscape where the post-nuclear future meets the mythological past. More simply, its also one of the most mind-blowing stunt movies ever made. Max (Mel Gibson) the heroic loner who drives the roads of outback Australia in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defenders of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the Humungus (Kjell Nilsson), notorious for never taking prisoners when they can pulverise them instead. When the battle is joined, the results are savage, spectacular and with Mad Max 2 on your side, screen action doesnt get any better. - Director:
- George Miller
- Cast:
- Mel Gibson, Harold Baigent, Bruce Spence
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Silent Running (1972)Running Silent
In the not-so-distant future, Earth is barren of all flora and fauna, with what remains of the planet's former ecosystems preserved aboard a fleet of greenhouses orbiting in space. When the crews are ordered to destroy the remaining specimens, one botanist, Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern), rebels and flees towards Saturn in a desperate bid to preserve his own little piece of Earth that was, accompanied only by the ship's three service robots. - Director:
- Douglas Trumbull
- Cast:
- Bruce Dern, Joseph Campanella, Cliff Potts
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When NASA's executive director, Dan Truman (Thornton) realizes the Earth has 18 days before it's obliterated by a meteor the size of Texas, he has only one opinion - land a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers on the asteroid and drop a nuclear warhead into its core. Spectacular special effects, laugh out loud humor, great characters, riveting storytelling and heartfelt emotion make Armageddon an exhilarating thrill ride you'll want to experience like there's no tomorrow. - Director:
- Michael Bay
- Cast:
- Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck
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Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) is no ordinary cop. He's a Mad Max gone maniacal, a man whose killing expertise and suicidal recklessness make him a Lethal Weapon to anyone he works against. Or with. Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is an easygoing homicide detective with a loving family, a big house and a pension he doesn't want to lose. Imagine Murtaugh's shock when he learns his partner is a guy with nothing left to lose: wild-eyed, burnt-out Martin Riggs.' Lethal Weapon' is the thrill-packed story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one other thing in common: both hate to work with partners. But partnership becomes the key to survival when a routine murder investigation leads to all-out, take-no-prisoners, martial-arts-and-machine-guns war with an international heroin ring. - Director:
- Richard Donner
- Cast:
- Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)Journey to the World
A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the peaceful alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings fails to earn the public's trust. When a young woman and her son befriend him, they soon realise they may be all that stands between the human race and total destruction. - Director:
- Robert Wise
- Cast:
- Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
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A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's 'Chinatown' stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in...Chinatown. - Director:
- Roman Polanski
- Cast:
- Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
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"Forbidden Planet" is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space-cruiser crew to Planet Altair-4, home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), a dutiful robot named Robby...and a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first allelectronic musical soundscape in film history, 'Forbidden Planet' is in a movie orbit all its own. - Director:
- Fred M. Wilcox
- Cast:
- Walter Pidgeon, Marvin Miller, Anne Francis
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From the creators of 'Cars' and the Incredibles comes a breakthrough comedy with something for everyone. With delightful new characters, experience Paris from an all-new perspective. In one of Paris' finest restaurants, Remy (voice of Patton Oswalt), a determined young rat, dreams of becoming a renowned French Chef. Torn between his family's wishes and his true calling, Remy and his pal Linguini (voice of Lou Romano) set in motion a hilarious chain of events that turns the City of Lights upside down. - Director:
- Brad Bird
- Cast:
- Brad Garrett, Lou Romano, Patton Oswalt
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Carl Fredricksen (voices of Edward Asner / Jeremy Leary), a retired balloon salesman, is part rascal, part dreamer who is ready for his last chance at high-flying excitement. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, Carl sets off to the lost world of his childhood dreams. Unbeknownst to Carl, Russell (voice of Jordan Nagai), an overeager 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer who has never ventured beyond his backyard, is in the wrong place at the wrong time - Carl's front porch! The world's most unlikely duo reach new heights and meet fantastic friends like Dug (voice of Bob Peterson), a dog with a special collar that allows him to speak, and Kevin, a rare 13-foot-tall flightless bird. Stuck together in the wilds of the jungle, Carl realises that sometimes life's biggest adventures aren't the ones you set out looking for. - Director:
- Pete Docter
- Cast:
- Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger
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In a vibrant story of family, fun and adventure, Miguel (voice of Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of becoming a great musician and embarks on an extraordinary journey to the magical land of his ancestors, where the charming trickster Héctor (voice of Gael García Bernal) becomes an unexpected friend and helps Miguel uncover the mysteries of his family's stories and traditions. - Director:
- Lee Unkrich
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- Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt
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Midnight Special (2016)Untitled Jeff Nichols/Sci-Fi Project
After rescuing his son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher) from a fundamentalist religious sect who are convinced his powerful supernatural abilities are the key to their salvation, Roy (Michael Shannon), Alton and their bodyguard Lucas (Joel Edgerton) are on the run for their lives. What starts as a desperate escape from a fearsome cult soon attracts the attention of the FBI who believe the boy to be a threat to mankind's very existence. With the trio's fate hanging in the balance, Roy will stop at nothing to keep his son from harm and uncover the truth behind his unbelievable powers, a discovery which could change the world forever. - Director:
- Jeff Nichols
- Cast:
- Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst
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Attack on Titan: Series 1: Part 1 (2013)Shingeki no Kyojin
When the man-eating giants called Titans first appeared, humans retreated behind massive walls. After a hundred years of safety, a colossal-sized Titan smashes through the defences, unleashing a flood of giants and carnage in the streets. Eren Jaeger watches helplessly as one of the creatures devours his mother. Eren and his surviving friends enlist to fight against the insatiable monsters. The future looks bleak, but there's more to Eren than meets the eye: he may be humanity's last hope against extinction. From the director of Death Note and High School of the Dead comes the series Anime News Network calls "an intense, visceral, and graphic thrill ride". The Titans have come to feast. Anything can happen. No one is safe. - Director:
- Tetsuro Araki
- Cast:
- Yûki Kaji, Marina Inoue, Bryce Papenbrook
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A cool cast of young stars is just one of the things you'll love about this hilarious comedy hit! On the first day of his new school, Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) instantly falls for Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date: unless her ill-tempered, completely undateable older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) goes along for the ride too! In an attempt to solve this problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad-boy with a nasty reputation of his own! Also featuring a hip soundtrack - this witty comedy is a wildly entertaining look at exactly how far some guys will go to get a date! - Director:
- Gil Junger
- Cast:
- Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Director Spike Jonze delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Cooper), New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Streep), Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage), and his twin brother Donald (also Cage). As Charlie struggles to adapt Orlean's best-selling book "The Orchid Thief," he writes himself into his own movie. The various stories crash into one another exploding into a wildly imaginative film. . - Director:
- Spike Jonze
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- Nicolas Cage, Nancy Lenehan, Tilda Swinton
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The African Queen (1951)African Queen
Take two legendary co-stars, a rip-roaring boys own story, a fearless director and an eventful location shoot in Zaire and Uganda and you get 'The African Queen' - the best loved of all adventure movies. During World War One, a hard drinking river trader (Humphrey Bogart) and a prim missionary (Katharine Hepburn) are forced to take a hazardous river expedition together, encountering tropical hazards, nefarious German officers and a surprising romance. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
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